Whitechapel - The Weekly Listening Thread (21sep09)

The Weekly Listening Thread (21sep09)

2009-09-21T07:40:54-07:00

What're you listening to?

New week's releases are up at http://www.piccadillyrecords.com on Monday morning - just choose a genre from left and click "magic mix" to stream excerpts from the new releases.

Ariana usually swings by Largehearted Boy's Try it before you buy it posts on Tuesday mornings, too.

Commence playlist speakage.

Right now I'm listening to a lot of High Wolf. My last.fm scrobbler's been choking, so apparently my Top Artists of the last seven days looks like:

1 Fuck Buttons 31
2 Zola Jesus 30
3 Saturn Finger 29
4 High Wolf 26
5 The Black Heart Procession 22
6 Nudge 19
7 Vowels 11
8 The Minimal Militant 6
8 My Bloody Valentine 6
8 múm 6
11 Explorers 3
12 baroquedub 2
13 Steely Dan 1
13 Clorinde 1
13 Yeah Yeah Yeahs 1

The Weekly Listening Thread (21sep09)

2009-09-21T08:01:08-07:00

Fuck Buttons are great. I recently lost my iPod BUT I FOUND IT AGAIN TODAY HOORAY, so now I'll be listening to Sweet Love for Planet Earth on the bus home.

Aside from that I'm currently playing Oceansize's cover of Walking in the Air, which is absolutely epic and puts a stupid grin on my face. I recently bought Mastadon's Crack the Skye and am loving that. Pelican's The Fire In Our Throats Will Beckon The Thaw is a personal favourite, and Animal Collective's Merriweather Post Pavilion is always close by if I want to jump around a bit. And at the end of the day me and my girlfriend tend to zone out to either Mogwai's Zidane Soundtrack, or Sigur Ros' ( ).

The Weekly Listening Thread (21sep09)

2009-09-21T08:25:42-07:00

Dr Octagon - Dr. Octagonecologyst
White Zombie - Supersexy Swingin' Sounds
Pentagram - Relentless
Red Sparowes - At The Soundless Dawn
Soulsavers with Mark Lanegan - Broken
Black Cobra - Feather and Stone
Baroness - Blue Record

The Weekly Listening Thread (21sep09)

2009-09-21T08:48:13-07:00

@filthy
New Black Cobra record out on Sept. 29th!

Recently:
Solace - 13
Red Giant - Ultra-Magnetic Glowing Sound
Lowrider - Ode to Io
Monster Magnet - Spine of God
Gaslight Anthem - The '59 Sound

The Weekly Listening Thread (21sep09)

2009-09-21T08:55:00-07:00

pretty much can't get that Bibio - Ambivalence Avenue record out of heavy rotation but I have been spicing it up with the Burial & Four Tet collaboration which has one of the better beat reveals this year and the new Shahs which I have been quite enjoying along with High Wolf's "Animal Totem" and Sun Araw's "Heavy Deeds".

The Weekly Listening Thread (21sep09)

2009-09-21T09:34:29-07:00

Been playing these albums a lot lately:

DUNGEN: 4
BILL EVANS TRIO: Sunday at the Village Vanguard
TAKEN BY TREES: Open Field
SLAYER: Seasons in the Abyss
GRINDERMAN: Grinderman
THE BEATLES: For Sale

The Weekly Listening Thread (21sep09)

2009-09-21T10:10:42-07:00

Yes, I am hideously late to the conversation, but I finally got a copy of Merriweather Post Pavilion. Haven't listened to Animal Collective before, being frightened away by their experimental tendencies. But this stuff is great. 'My Girls' is just glorious. I get what our Internet Jesus is saying about them. Personally, I can handle the sugariness. Listening to Los Campesinos! gives you a pretty good vaccination.

Speaking of which, those guys have a new band-member called Kim and a new single called 'The Sea Is A Good Place To Think Of The Future'. Bit stadium rock-y. But in a good way.

The Weekly Listening Thread (21sep09)

2009-09-21T10:12:58-07:00

Last.fm sez:

1. Breakestra
2. Charles Mingus
3. Marc Ribot & Los Cubanos Postizos
4. Burnt Sugar the Arkestra Chamber
5. William Parker
5. Muslimgauze
7. Sonic Youth
7. Critters Buggin
9. Kemper Norton
9. Red Snapper
11. The Lounge Lizards
11. The Kilimanjaro Darkjazz Ensemble
13. Solveig Slettahjell / Slow Motion Quintet
13. Laineen Kasperi
13. Balkan Beat Box

The Weekly Listening Thread (21sep09)

2009-09-21T10:29:43-07:00

Nebraska by Bruce Springsteen.

The Weekly Listening Thread (21sep09)

2009-09-21T11:53:18-07:00

SEX/VID-drugging ep
MUNICIPAL WASTE-waste em all lp

The Weekly Listening Thread (21sep09)

2009-09-21T11:58:27-07:00

Dubkasm - Transform I; brazilian influenced roots reggae out of Bristol

Boo Boo Davis - Name of the Game; 'straight' blues; downloaded 'Who Stole the Booty' for my 'Sons of Anarchy' mix cd and decided to buy the rest of the album

Sun Araw - Beach Head; as showcased by Mr Ellis; 'Horse steppin' has already been played to death and I've been extolling its virtues to all and sundry

The Weekly Listening Thread (21sep09)

2009-09-21T14:58:58-07:00

Neurosis - Given To The Rising
Sonic Youth - Goo
Superchunk - Come Pick Me Up
Yo La Tengo - Popular Songs
The Mighty Mighty Bosstones - A Jackknife To A Swan
Mike Patton - Adult Themes For Voice
The Plot To Blow Up The Eiffel Tower - Love In The Fascist Brothel
Dragon Boy Suede - Master of Pheromonies

The Weekly Listening Thread (21sep09)

2009-09-21T15:01:07-07:00

Still pretty much the same.

Neon Indian
Girls
Orange Juice
Zomby
Ducktails
JJ
The Mekons
Pictureplane
The Magnetic Fields
Washed out
Delorean
Animal Collective
The Fall
Wild Beasts
Memory Cassette
The Magnetic Fields
Pictureplane
YACHT
Al Green
toro y moi
Zola Jesus
Flying Lotus
The xx
Girls
Saint Etienne
Washed out
Forest Swords
Memory Cassette
Animal Collective
Destroyer

Absolutely hated Zola Jesus, might have been the shitty rip I got.

The Weekly Listening Thread (21sep09)

2009-09-21T15:17:35-07:00

Hardy Kukuk - Atemnot

Hesperion XXI - Orient/Occident

Baroness - Blue Record

Lightning Bolt - Earthly Delights

Alamaailman Vasarat - Maahan

Illachime Quartet - s/t

The Weekly Listening Thread (21sep09)

2009-09-21T16:07:16-07:00

The Weekly Listening Thread (21sep09)

2009-09-21T16:22:22-07:00

The new Chuck Ragan album is good.

That is all.

The Weekly Listening Thread (21sep09)

2009-09-21T16:25:44-07:00

what was on my MP3 player today...

Do Make Say Think - the Other Truths
Lady and Bird - La Ballade of 2009
Metaxu - Rumors Of War
Ministry - Psalm 69, The Way to Succeed & the Way to Suck Eggs
white denim - Fits
Agnivolok - Sculptor
High wolf - animal totem
Burial Chamber Trio - Burial Chamber Trio
Jasper TX - Black Sleep
Boards of Canada - In A Beautiful Place Out In The Country
Zelienople - Ghost Ship, Mary Celeste
Skulltroll - Skulltroll
Gregor Samsa - Over Air
Wild beasts - Two Dancers

The Weekly Listening Thread (21sep09)

2009-09-21T16:29:45-07:00

How do you like the White Denim album?

The Weekly Listening Thread (21sep09)

2009-09-21T16:37:54-07:00

I think it´s pretty good! it´s a lot better than their first album. they´ve certainly tapped that 60´s psychedelic seam for all it´s worth.

The Weekly Listening Thread (21sep09)

2009-09-21T17:26:30-07:00

Part Chimp - Thriller I watched them launch this about two hours ago. It's amazing. Like being run over by a stampede of cattle, simple yet crushing.
Bomb The Music Industry! - Discography Because why not.
Frank Turner - Poetry of the Deed Every album this man puts out, the more I love him.
Iron & Wine - Discogaphy
A Bear - Some of Our Friends Are Animals/Assorted Demos It makes me sad that they split up this week, now who the hell will I go to watch in manchester?
VA - Dark Was the Night

The Weekly Listening Thread (21sep09)

2009-09-21T17:27:36-07:00

@ Nigredo, is the new Lightning Bolt album as amazing as I think it is? Please tell me it is.

The Weekly Listening Thread (21sep09)

2009-09-21T18:02:25-07:00

It's very Lightning Bolt. Lo-fi and crushing. Some mammoth riffs in there.

The Weekly Listening Thread (21sep09)

2009-09-21T18:25:27-07:00

That is good news.
Now all they need to do is announce UK dates and I'll be happy.

The Weekly Listening Thread (21sep09)

2009-09-22T03:19:00-07:00

Indeed.

np:

Klaus Schulze - Moondawn

The Weekly Listening Thread (21sep09)

2009-09-22T14:12:49-07:00

Kidney Thieves- Trickster Reprocess
Paper Rival- Dialog (Forgot how much I liked this.)
OhGr- Devils in My Details

The Weekly Listening Thread (21sep09)

2009-09-22T14:19:24-07:00

Tyondai Braxton - Central Market
Bits and pieces from Philip Jeck, Fennesz and Oren Ambarchi I've been meaning to get round to listening to
Mount Fuji Doomjazz Corporation - Succubus

I've just started to get into jazz as well, so John Coltrane, Miles Davis and Lee Morgan. If anyone has any suggestions for what I should try as a newcomer to jazz, recommendations would be very welcome.

The Weekly Listening Thread (21sep09)

2009-09-22T15:15:51-07:00

@Rob Diston:
Hey, I've been meaning to check out the Tyondai Braxton record; is it any good?
As for jazz recommendations, and apart from the great artists you already mentioned, I really dig "The Shape of Jazz to Come" by ORNETTE COLEMAN, pretty much anything by ERIC DOLPHY and "The Black Saint and Sinner Lady" by CHARLES MINGUS. Also, early 60's recordings by BILL EVANS; he made some really beautiful stuff.

The Weekly Listening Thread (21sep09)

2009-09-22T15:33:06-07:00

@Rob Diston

Mathias already gave you some excellent suggestions, but I'd add Thelonius Monk into the classics selection.

Moving on to the newer material Herbie Hancock (yes yes, started waybackwhen) has a lot of brilliant and highly varied stuff, Sonny Sharrock could play the hell out of an electric guitar, Tim Berne does some very appealingly abstract things. William Parker and Hamid Drake are an invincible rhythm section with anyone. Peter Brötzmann one cracked his ribs by blowing the sax too hard, which should serve as a warning.

The Weekly Listening Thread (21sep09)

2009-09-22T15:47:49-07:00

Brotzmann's Machine Gun is one of my all time faves.

Go listen to Pharoah Sanders' Karma too, best spiritual jazz record ever.

The Weekly Listening Thread (21sep09)

2009-09-22T16:13:41-07:00

Climate Of Hunter - Scott Walker
Wrath - Lamb Of God
Spinnerette - Spinnerette
The Crying Light - Antony And The Johnsons
More Music For The Jilted Generation - The Prodigy
Crack The Skye - Mastodon
Dead By April - Dead By April

The Weekly Listening Thread (21sep09)

2009-09-22T17:26:36-07:00

The Weekly Listening Thread (21sep09)

2009-09-22T19:20:11-07:00

@Rob Diston:
I would second Matthias' Bill Evans recommendation but would extend it back to Evans' earliest work and farther into the future. He's an amazing pianist, two of my favorite records of his are "Portrait in Jazz" which is from the mid 50s and is very much a moody, cool jazz record and "Conversations with Myself" which is from the 80s I believe and features Evans overdubbing piano and organ lines on top of eachother.

The Weekly Listening Thread (21sep09)

2009-09-23T02:09:45-07:00

The Field - Yesterday and Today

Carnival of Souls OST

Oren Ambarchi - Grapes of the Estate

The Weekly Listening Thread (21sep09)

2009-09-23T10:07:50-07:00

Thanks for all the recommendations, I'll be sure to check them out.

@Mathias - I really like the Tyondai Braxton album, you can hear a little of Battles in it, but overall it's his own sound. To be honest it's one of the best new records I've heard this year.

The Weekly Listening Thread (21sep09)

2009-09-23T14:01:01-07:00

Two Gallants, Mary Prankster, Future Virgins, Japanther, The Joykiller, The Gateway District and this song over and over again:

The Weekly Listening Thread (21sep09)

2009-09-23T14:20:29-07:00

There are two bands currently circulating in Houston, Listen Listen and I Am Mesmer. Both are old-timey, moody, horror-folk and definitely worth checking out. I just moved to Dallas so I can't get to all the free shows as easily. Websites are here: LISTEN LISTEN and I AM MESMER - free songs abound. PLEASE check them both out, they need more support and exposure.

Other than that, my Last.fm is devoted exclusively to my Madlib station, which gives me some great tracks.

The Weekly Listening Thread (21sep09)

2009-09-23T15:58:43-07:00

@brycemidas

When did Sunday at the Village Vanguard come out? I know Waltz for Debbie (incidentally, the only record of his I own a physical copy of) came out only a short time before. The bass playing on those two records is fucking incredible.

The Weekly Listening Thread (21sep09)

2009-09-23T16:08:51-07:00

@Boga_ Absolutely. Scott LeFaro was the bassist on most of Evans' early stuff (including Waltz for Debbie and all of the Vanguard sessions) and he is widely regarded to be one of the greatest jazz bassists of all time. Unfortunately LeFaro died in a car crash almost immediately after they wrapped at the Vanguard. A true travesty. All of the recordings with LeFaro are basically considered Evans' early period and they sort of meld into the mid period stuff in the mid 60s.

Also, I pulled out my Conversations with Myself record and it seems as though I was way off with the date, looks like it came out in 63 which makes it WAY more amazing!

One more well known tidbit about Evans is that he was the pianist for Miles Davis during the seminal Kind of Blue recordings and actually, I believe, wrote or co-wrote Blue in Green.

And he was a major heroin addict! Yeah!

The Weekly Listening Thread (21sep09)

2009-09-23T16:17:35-07:00

Klaus Schulze - Mirage
Witchcraft - Witchcraft
Monster Magnet - Superjudge

The Weekly Listening Thread (21sep09)

2009-09-23T16:35:55-07:00

Great list.

Dopplereffekt - Linear Accelerator (re-visiting Dopplereffekt, prompted by the interview in the latest issue of the Wire)

The Weekly Listening Thread (21sep09)

2009-09-23T18:53:17-07:00

I’m listening to The Incident, the new album from the awesome Porcupine Tree. I just bought it so I haven’t reached a final verdict, but so far so outstanding.

The Weekly Listening Thread (21sep09)

2009-09-23T19:04:21-07:00

This was my radio showwwww.

We often play some pretty incongruous sets. It's good fun.

The Weekly Listening Thread (21sep09)

2009-09-24T05:18:34-07:00

Isao Tomita - Snowflakes Are Dancing

Gol, Iancu Dumitrescu, Ana-maria Avram - Musique Directe

The Weekly Listening Thread (21sep09)

2009-09-24T07:05:26-07:00

I am listening to the latest A Night in the Box in preparation for their show on Friday. God damn do these folks put on a good show.

The Weekly Listening Thread (21sep09)

2009-09-24T09:38:02-07:00

I'm trying to figure out how I feel about this new Alice in Chains record.

The Weekly Listening Thread (21sep09)

2009-09-24T09:50:32-07:00

@ infomancer - I'm digging the new AIC record... it sounds a little weird to me because there are songs that would fit on their previous albums, but instead they're all on this new disc. Almost like unreleased songs off Facelift, Dirt, Jar of Flies, and "Tripod" all on one cd. Jerry Cantrell sings a lot more on the album than I thought he would too, not that I mind. The harmonies, which I thought would sound forced, sound incredibly similar to Layne/Jerry dynamic... it's a solid album in my opinion.

The Weekly Listening Thread (21sep09)

2009-09-24T11:25:10-07:00

Eluveitie- Slania
Imogen Heap- Ellipse
Infected Mushroom- Legend of the Black Shawarma
MuteMath- Armistice
Threat Signal- Vigilance
Black Crowes- Before The Frost....Until The Freeze

The Weekly Listening Thread (21sep09)

2009-09-24T12:11:51-07:00

@ filthy

I'm inclined to agree. There aren't any songs that really seem to struggle, at least at first listen. Plus I guess most of the singles from the self-titled record had Cantrell singing lead. It just feels weird to be nodding along and suddenly remember that it isn't Layne singing.

The Weekly Listening Thread (21sep09)

2009-09-24T14:46:02-07:00

@AlexGBYMR - Just got the new Partchimp. Fucking. A.

The Weekly Listening Thread (21sep09)

2009-09-24T19:44:16-07:00

@ Internaut

I’ve also been listening to the new Mute Math. So far I’m liking it, with the one exception being “Lost Year.” Maybe I just need to listen to it a bit more, but upon first play through it sounded on the bland side, like it was an afterthought. Especially when compared to what follows. “Burden” is just awesome.

The Weekly Listening Thread (21sep09)

2009-09-25T12:08:42-07:00

I've been listening to the new Faith and the Muse single I got from DragonCon. Their show was fantastic, although it was far from a perfect performance. They have a new CD coming out the end of the month I understand. If you aren't familiar with their work they sometimes fit the Projekt Records label style. I would probably describe them as a goth rock version of Dead Can Dance who is obsessed with faerytale folklore like Mignola.

The Weekly Listening Thread (21sep09)

2009-09-26T01:44:05-07:00

The harmonies, which I thought would sound forced, sound incredibly similar to Layne/Jerry dynamic...

Can't say I'm all that surprised. I've seen the reformed AIC, plus Jerry Cantrell quite a few times, and so far I haven't seen much more to William DuVall beyond his Layne impersonation. If he adds something of his own, more power to him. If not, I don't see the point.

The Weekly Listening Thread (21sep09)

2009-09-26T21:12:31-07:00

Geinoh Yamashirogumi - Akira OST - sounds like it was made yesterday
Kronos Quartet - Released - had an urge to hear Avro Part's "Fratres" again
Coil - Musick To Play In The Dark, Volume 2 - not as solid as 1, but effectively creepsome and luminous

The Weekly Listening Thread (21sep09)

2009-09-26T21:49:43-07:00

Something cute

Something pretty

let yourself feel. from Esteban Diácono on Vimeo.

I got both from the design blog Kitsune Noir

The Weekly Listening Thread (21sep09)

2009-09-27T04:06:56-07:00

The Kilimanjaro Darkjazz Ensemble - s/t

The Weekly Listening Thread (21sep09)

2009-09-27T04:24:40-07:00

Imogen Heap- Ellipse

I tried and I tried... and this just did nothing for me. Am I the only one?

The Weekly Listening Thread (21sep09)

2009-09-28T07:19:25-07:00

I tried and I tried... and this just did nothing for me. Am I the only one?

i happened to find a torrent of the instrumental version of the album and honestly enjoy it more.